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Chicago examiner examiner leads in circulation the daily and sunday examiner in december sold more papers in the city of Chicago ihan any other two morning papers with several chousand to spare circulation books open to the inspection of any advertiser vol xii no 29 a m saturday Chicago january 24 1914 saturday cloudy moderate to brisk north f^^ivslj r.su'.ered in u s pittnt office price one cent s r c s court to act on armour's defiance of u.s inquiry f w ellis refrigerating lines vice president is to be forced 1 lo testify before board by j federal writ of mandamus j chairman clark of interstate k commerce commission orders j swift action to obtain answers in car line investigation itrai.l attitude of i w elljs i idem of the armour i'efriger | a toward the interstate com j omission whose questions ellis j ied to answer wiil be subdued , lower of the government dis iom washington s'.atc that ellis ruuipclled to aus-vcr make hint answer a method will which the commission has never < re commissioner edgar e clark i of the board stated in wash li-.-d:,y that a petition will be he federal court rn Chicago for bus ordering eilis to answer all put to him concerning financial between his company and ar ioiier charles c m'-cbord lert festerday for washington to prc nclitiun as soon as the ue bignaiures have been affixed . wi'l bring the petition bacb to o be bled immediate action is c the bands of the court here nbors of the commission are tht-t the couri decision will a further trouble with ellis ricss it is believed that ellis nswering questions by wednes i men excited of railnrad men who have been ; the private car hue hearings e ommer'-o commission in ho , ale conferred excitedly when i of mcchord's departure and its j ce became public all agreed j i outlook tor the armour car i i not pleasant it was announced ] * bord would meet chairman j uilsnii *'. clements james s j nd perhaps baltbasar h meyer j mbcrs of the commission in ton y edni.id w hines who went j ington with mcchord said the j in part would be prepared by j given to 1 i farrell solicitor commission who arrives in this ay to take charge of the case loner mcchord is expected to re cnteago with mr hines next according to the latter the will then be filed in a federal vestigation into the matter of ar lines yesterday afternoon dis ia i morris & co would be glaj of their car line service if they efficient service from the rail â€¢ be rid of service ntatives of swift a co also in ha tiiey would be glad to be hat service if they could the s showed lhat they were making fit on their investment is of the atlantic coast line j will testify today and as that i rrs ihe cars of the armour i examiner george ]'. boyle 0 obtain certain information i _ armour lines which was with the officials themselves other l messes may be called today estlons directed at the witnesses ] boyle indicate according to at for the iia.-king interests tlat rnment is conducting its investl ! ir the purpose of finding out if sible to put an end to the pri lines ami compel the carriers i the proper equipment iu re r cars and other special car 111 refrigerator cars l o.sman superintendent of the irtnieut of aiorris it co was i witness yesterday afternoon the company owned 2.in refrig ars and that all of them were erry pai-kiug house products the company owned no icing sta r ihe i ars , but depended on other companies an.l of the rail was plenty of ground for disa i between tlie private ear lines rai roads he said new anaesthetic doesn't shock heart i'iiilai.li.i'iiia inn 2j kor lb eeond time a aew anaesthetic comp.xieil erf other and oil which is less ondticlve lo nausea nnd less of a heart shock was irse.i successfully in an operation in larretson i-los.iital the patient was herhsrt hujilos who sufreretl nil i . spill palate hughes who has a weak k heart did i feel the slightest ill cf constantino wins 100,000 love suit jury rules tenor never promised to wed marcclle hontabet new yoke lan r 1 :!.â€” klorencio con stantino th spanish grand opera tenor \ has won the broach of promise action \ for j.100,00.1 damages brought against hint iby marcolie hortabet the dhninutrre i chorus girl a jury in the supreme court i decided to-day that constantino never 1 promised to oarry her miss hontabet told the jury how she j met the tenor in a boston street and j how he had promised to make her an ! artist and the wire of the great conr ; stantino sue was followed by tje de j fendaut who testified that he never meu | tioned marriage to her she accost cd me in the street one i day he explained and said she had j known me in paris and that she wauled ito go to the opera and hear me sing i igave her thk is 1 almost always give away flfty tickets to friends who want jto hear me ping he declared whatever i courting was done was on her part 1 1 ; 1 plorencw con i i * stantiixo oper j 1 atic tenor who won the j 100,000 breach of prom j i ' ise suit brought against ! : him by marcolle hon : tabet human life is held cheapest in america in no country in the world is human life so cheap as iu america j.ooo mur ders and i.fxm suicides last year is enough o appall the stoutest heart " i this was the beginning of a lelter sent out yesterday to every i'roteslant min ister in and around chicaso by w b ! millard executive secretary of the chi ! i-ago church federation council calling ! on them to prea'-h on the sac-redness of j human life on lincoln sunday febru i ary s ' _ - heir to fortune is found shot through heart man and wife arrested say vic-j tim himself fired fatal bullet into body , mystery baffles police i abraham lewis said to have j plunged down stairs when mortally wounded abraham lewis 2130 west division street owner of a northwest si<je plumb ing shop and the son of a wealthy re i tired commission merchant was found j | deail in tile hallway on the second floor i of the building at 415 soulh racine nve ! nue last night with a bullet hole j throngh his heart the police were sunimoued b.v walter kruger teamster living on the third floor it was in krugers home that lewis was shot kruger insists lewis \ shot himself accidentally but the nh i i senee ot powder marks on his clothing j i causes the police to believe he was mar j i dered kroger and his wife who was absest at j the llrue of the shooting are being held in the desplaines street station after questioning them lieutenant hogan de clured there is little doubt but that lewis was murdered i contradicts own story although kruger and his wife tell a sldry which apparently is true we have succeeded in tripping him up in several tances be said kruger at first t>i!i"d he ever had been arrested then said he once had been arrested for dil orderly conduct several policemen identified him as the man accused of the murder of a man in a aloon at washington and siorgan streets fifteen years ago he reluctantly admitted the truth of this and said he was acquit iod . knigpr's story of the dealli e ltjwi irs tolfl to lieutenant hogau is as fol low abe ami 1 hail been intimate friends j for years and he would visit my home j two lir three nights a week he called l.?sr night to get a ladle i promised to give him my wife left soon after he came in 1 went to the kitchen to get the lad if tells of shootting as 1 reached the kitchen door 1 heard a shot i looked back to the sitting room ! abo was sitting in a chair and had niy i 3s-caliber revolver in his hand he arose j from the chair dropped the revolver and started toward me " walter i'm shot go get a doctor lie said i picked up the revolver and put it ; back on the table and ran to the street | where i met policeman daniel coughlin i of the luke street station he accom ! panied me to the house we found abe lying in the hallway on the second floor he must have staggered to the stairs and i plunged down them head foremost ' lewis father is morris lewis retired commission merchant and a large holder â– it northwest side real estate the son livei iu the home of bis father swift home to rival millionaire row wai.kegan 111 jan 28 contractors bave received word hat louis k swift i the millionaire packer is planning a coun | try home which will eclipse any of the mansions on millionaire row as the j green .. bay road is sometimes called i architects have been engaged to excel ! in splendor melody farm and the mccor ! miok mansion is said to be the aim of | mr swirt president takes up 4 acute questions calls committee to discuss japan mexico canal and treaties washington jan 23 the most im portant meeting of the president with the foreign relations o.i.u.iuee ol the senate daring lie administtntfcn wiil he held on monday night al lie white liouse trhen ah the member will be present these tout acute questions will be dis iisso.l japan mexico panama canal tolls and the long overdue general atbl nation treaties senator ba.ou rhairiuan of hie com mittee had au hour's talk lhis evening with president wilson love suit against kitty soames ends barrister withdraws action nam ing sir baden-powell's relative sn-i-ial cable ta the examiner london lan ss general secrecy is maintained over a breach of promise of marriage suit which was withdrawn to day by beach chester a young barrister the womrfli be was suing was named merely as miss soames the Chicago kxaminer correspondent learns the defendant was miss kitty soames a sisier-io-law of general sir robert baden-i'owell the founder of the eoy scout movement . miss soames met chester last july and fell ln love with bim wiih the result that they eloped u s seizes clark's 6,500 tablecloth new york jan 23 modeled after a pattern used by the pope a venetian lace tablecloth costing 0,300 bought by for mer united states seuator william a clark for his 3,000,000 mansion at sev enty-seventh st eet and fifth aveuue has been seized by the government for unpaid duties united stales assistant district attor ney addison 11 pratt to-day instituted suit in the federal court to confiscate the textile although the tablecloth was seized by rhe customs officials in sena tor clark's mansion in march 19 us the fact only became public to-day the tablecloth was entered as being woith only i|.:!<k claims to be son of lord strathcona busto.v mass jau 23 james h smith of strathmore road brookline was to-day declared by his wife to be he son of lord strathcona who died at london on tuesday last mrs smith said her husband would put in a claim for the vast estate left by the canadian empire builder mr smith who is an invalid is being kept in the background by his wife but he has engaged an attorney and will shortly make a public statement in which be will set forth his claims mrs smith declared her husi'aud lo be a full brother of mrs is 1 bliss howard who has always been considered the only child o lord strathcona richard mansfield's son deserts school wallingi-'ord conn jan 23 gibbs mansfield fourteen years old sou of the late richard mansfield has dis appeared from the cboate school voting mansfield who possesses in a marked degree the temperament of his famous father left two weeks ago after writing a caustic teller denouncing the school's methods and declaring his fellow pupils to be liars and traitors he said he was going lo taris to see his mother lie had only 50 eenls when he disap pea red . four astor heirs pay 3,267,774 tax new youk lan 23 surrogate vow lcr to-day signed an order fixing the tax which the various legatees under the will of john jacob astor must pay to the state the principal legatees and their taxes arer madeline talmadge force astor 246,091 fax ou j..*>79,777 ava alice mu riel astor 177,750 tax on 4,851,758 william vincent astor 274,807 on 68 995.100 john jacob astor iÂ«0.2u0 on 2,917,072 bomb hurled at dowager empress special cable to the examiner i'a ili s jan 28 according to l.'in tranpigeant dowager kraprcss mario of russia hns written to her sister dowager queen alexandra of hnghsnrl telling of lier escape from death on v recent rip from denmark to st petersburg when a liomb was expfbtfed tea yards fro.n the trail in which she was riding the dowager empress had received _\ nihilist death threat steel trust to run co-operative farm on^k.at'iurr .... jan 2 the i 'â– â– k steel corporation according to lis of fb-lals shortly will have in operation 'â– :â€¢â€¢ first co.oiierath e farm n this rouutry for supplying foodsteffs lo its employe the project was made ptil.lb todav the land adjoin * l.e 8,000-nrre farm of the steel corporation easl of this ctly first list filed for city-wide subways petition of 1,000 names asking for vote on the comprehensive system is recorded in elec tion commissioners office | alderman healy the republican leader assails dinky tube ad vocates declares issue has been befuddled explains plan a first installment of 1.000 names to the petition for placing the plan tor a com i prehensive subway on the little bal ' lot at the april election was filed in ! the office of the election conimis i sioners yesterday afternoon the petition was placed on record iby james ' russell who made affi | davit that the signatures had been | secured under his supervision and â– that the signers to the best of his ' knowledge and his belief are all ! duly registered and qualified voters i it was received and filed by william h stuart clerk of the election board day by day the petition will be in creased with the addition of other thousands of signatures for it is certain now that the expression of ; public sentiment that this petition j represents will bring in vastly more jthan the terrific total of 115,000 sig i natures lhat are needed in order i that the people may be given a chance to say whether they favor a comprehensive or a dinky subway system healy joins revolt mayor harrison is absolutely cor rect when he says that the subway has beÂ«n befuddled if the subway problem was fairly and squarely pre sented to the people of Chicago they not only would vote overwhelmingly for the comprehensive rapid-transit plan but would quickly find a way lo get what they want the above statement was made by j alderman william 1 healy one of ! the republican leaders in the city council although alderman healy has al i ways been allied with tho branch of ! the republican organization that has * been dominated by former governor | charles s dencen he has not hesita ted to join the revolt in the deneeu j camp against the ex-governor's at ! tempt to pledge the official support of the party to the bion j arnold dinky subway for whose success in the referendum election next april i the traction companies and their al lied interests are working real issue obscured ! alderman healy believes tl,e befud i dliug of subway mallets - has obscured i the real issue which the people should j be asked to decide by popular vote # this issue the alderman stated as fol ! lows what the voters should be asked to de i : cide is whether it woul.l or would not be t ! better for the public to get a rapid tran ! ! sit comprehensive subway with the aid i ot franchise-extending legislation should ' such legislation be necessary or to accept the so-called dinky subway from the traction companies and trust to luck or . he necessities of the situation to force i the companies to develop the dinky sub 1 way into a comprehensive subway alderman healy continued because of the befuddling and befog i giug of the real issues involved the fact ! thai there is no reason of public poliey requiring that the twenty year franchise ; pc.vvl be adhered to in subway matters lip completely lost sight of i talk out of place all talk of definite franchise grains is â€¢ oui of place under the moderu progress ive ii ii rl enlightened methods or dealing villi targe public utilities v bet her sub : w.-.ys or traction lines the amortization plan by which a utility pays for itself aim becomes a municipally owned enterprise tvttb'u ri definite period cf y.-nrs when the public heart uudr rut nude | thai amortization w simply u substitute for n franchise i will n.,i be poesime i lie'nilde the subway question Â„;â– â€ž,,,â€¢ i paid 25,000 to escape says jack johnson in paris 1 : pugilist names federal officials as men who profited by his getaway from Chicago in view of the charges of mrs sol a lewinsohn that jack johnson paid 25,000 to her husband in order to purchase immunity from federal officials so that he might get out of the country and that sol lewinsohn lost this money in the bucket shops and that in order to recover the sum required he raided his bank and paid the money back to johnson who later disbursed it to effect his escape the examiner sent the follow ing cablegram to its correspondent in paris Chicago jan 21 c f bertelli paris interview jack johnson v/hom and how much he paid to arrange his getaway from Chicago very important to get quickly signed Chicago examiner it was the examiner's desire to obtain a spontaneous state ment from johnson therefore no hint was given in the cable gram to its correspondent of mrs lewinsohn's charges or of the nature of publications that had been made regarding the deal ing's of federal officials with lewinsohn here is the answer to the above cablegram signed by c f bertelli the examiner's paris correspondent : paris jan -'.*. Chicago examiner i found johnson to-night at the boxing hu.ll watch ing the sport alter his return from hamburg ap parently he was not worrying over his wrestling de feat 1 asked him about his getaway from Chicago ami lohnson said : i am delighted that some people in Chicago are beginning to awake to the fact that i have been shamefully treated and am the victim of blackmailing officials in that city just before i got away from Chicago i handed 20,000 to roy jones who said he was sent to me by a man named de woody who rep resented harry parkin assistant district attor ney de woody and parkin used to frequent my saloon during the early part of my trouble in Chicago they were accommodated in a private room back of my saloon in various sums i paid out in this way a total of 25,000 i am going back to see the thing through when the v time is ripe and i think that will be soon and prove the case was a put-up job against me lohnson was jubilant because the people ul c hi eago arc awakening to the injustice done him lie left the hall immediatelv to tell the news to his wife signed bertelli the examiner last night submitted the above cablegram to all the parties in interest and offered to publish anything they desired to say in answer to jack johnson roy jones was found at his home 3901 grand boulevard johnson is wrong in saying that i got any money tor him to lake to ue woody or parkin or any one else said he one reason is that de woody would not take a chance by letting me get anything on him de woody has always heen unfriendly to me because i refused io stand for his browbeating on two or three occasions johnson's rea son for trying to drag me into this is evidently due io ill-feeling that arose when i was forced to testify against him in the belle schreiber case that johnson got a dirty deal somewhere 1 am convinced when the reporter called to interview assistant district attorney harry parkin about the johnson statement he was told that mr parkin had retired and could noi be disturbed mr de woody refused to discuss the case at all he was in con sultation with francis w walker the eminent criminal lawyer mr walker called up the examiner office on the telephone and said that while there was nothing to be announced publicly ce woody would talk the matter over in private with the newspaper editors johnson's dinner to u s officials ex posed by inq uiry grand jury interested in r of indicted pugilist and his white friends s â€” ix is seldom thai 0 graud jury is interested in the purely social ac tivities or ibe subjects or its in vestigations contrary to precedent hie grand jury which is inquiring into the scandal built about the tinnin lai affairs of l:r u johnson sol lewinsohn the fugitive banker n:nl a coterie of rederal officials is ex pected t tind a deep significance ln the evening pastimes r the netrro pugilist and his wire friends thai the ri"?ro should entertain the federal otirioia ai dinner or hint the repasi stjoata be n chicken ln ner would wit inferem the grand jury bad the party nut orctrrred jusi afier jotmsmi's federal friends had caused his bale num on _ charge of i smuggling a charge that was later compromised incidentally the jurors ejtpecl to hnd that the banquet was staged during the time the federal officials were , leaking the tm*estigat*ou on which as based tbo vhite blare indict ment ngninst johnson and that the investigators attended the dinner ; aulo trip after killing the jury would not be surprised to , lenni that charles f oewoody whei ehief investigator for the i'epiirfment | nf justice in Chicago and hii wife had been the guest of sol lewinsohn and h's nir on an automobile trip to ven york it is expected thai thn jury till be 'â– , *- _ ._ . federal battles to block inquiry city's vice bureau and names of major funkhouser and judge lanrjis are misused in effort to stop more exposures commissioner foote demands that district attorney wilker son put case in the hands of special prosecutor at once cms lewinsohn investigation never will get anywhere if those under suspicion ars placed in charge of the grand jury work if mr wilkerson really is in earnest he will withdraw from the investigation and ask that a special district attorney be ap pointed to relieve him in that particular work if he does not then we can expect nothing but a whitewash it always has been the policy of public prosecutors whose depart ments are under suspicion to step asidi in favor of a special attor ney and i do not understand why such is not the procedure in mr wilkersou's ofiice â€” statement by united states commissioner mark a foote whi llr a grand jury in the federal building was mak ing an investigation of tha scandal of the relations between federal officials criminal defendants bondsmen and attorneys amazing revelations were made of the ef forts of federal officials to bottle the scandal one of the powers that the fed eral crowd sought to use to bottle up further revelations was the city ol chicago's vice bureau of which major af l c funkhouser as second deputy superintendent of police is the chief another name that was used iu an effort to intimidate a man who haa information involving the federal crowd was that or no less t person tlian judge kenesaw m landls threats for lewinsohn the name of judge landis wa used without his knowledge tho effort to use the Chicago anti-vice department was made without the knowledge of major funkhouser threats cf prison for sol lewin sohn if he returns to testify against federal officials were telephoned yes terday to his brother davrd lewin sohn owner of the congress cafe in an effort to keep the missing bondsman-banker out of reach of the government acting as he claimed on instruc tions from united states district at torney wilkerson morals inspector dannenberg \ isited lewinsohn at his saloon later and tried to use his in fuence with him keep sol out ol the country said the person wbo called lewinsohn on the telephone bd refused to identify 1.1.u ----'â– !;-. the kxniiiiuer is going to iuggest !â€¢> stale's attorney mac uy hoyne lhat be give immunity i the state otteuses to lewinsohn *<â€¢ get bin to cctne baek and tr-stifj against the federal building bun h the minute he gets bacs judge landis win give him about too years la jail keep hiin away dhnneuhcrg*a vi>it turfed '-Â„'._ last night his conversation was beard by an kvniu'aer reporter wbo was present 11 had previously telephoned : a lew irisolii t ii t district a i tome ivskeison â– a i bin il s a il n ..,-;. - 0 i :: dree : <â– .Â» in -. aa i i tl v tier i , fin l ll:t watkins s.a i.e m-s.nti's see retary .. i , wrote *Â« check in federal official a .-... nsp moras - - - - j continued on 4th page 3d column tinueci en 2d page 4th coil nr a m coming tomorrow in the % Â¥ Chicago sunday examiner / the want ad special for motorcycles r arj4 used automobiles it will be full of some of the most striking bargains in motorcars and motorcycles ever seen w anywhere vyatcm for it the first thing to-mor jfc | j y row and pick out the bargain that / kk most appeals to you better take it quick i ff r somebodv else may get it look for your name as one pi the want ad winners j

Chicago examiner examiner leads in circulation the daily and sunday examiner in december sold more papers in the city of Chicago ihan any other two morning papers with several chousand to spare circulation books open to the inspection of any advertiser vol xii no 29 a m saturday Chicago january 24 1914 saturday cloudy moderate to brisk north f^^ivslj r.su'.ered in u s pittnt office price one cent s r c s court to act on armour's defiance of u.s inquiry f w ellis refrigerating lines vice president is to be forced 1 lo testify before board by j federal writ of mandamus j chairman clark of interstate k commerce commission orders j swift action to obtain answers in car line investigation itrai.l attitude of i w elljs i idem of the armour i'efriger | a toward the interstate com j omission whose questions ellis j ied to answer wiil be subdued , lower of the government dis iom washington s'.atc that ellis ruuipclled to aus-vcr make hint answer a method will which the commission has never < re commissioner edgar e clark i of the board stated in wash li-.-d:,y that a petition will be he federal court rn Chicago for bus ordering eilis to answer all put to him concerning financial between his company and ar ioiier charles c m'-cbord lert festerday for washington to prc nclitiun as soon as the ue bignaiures have been affixed . wi'l bring the petition bacb to o be bled immediate action is c the bands of the court here nbors of the commission are tht-t the couri decision will a further trouble with ellis ricss it is believed that ellis nswering questions by wednes i men excited of railnrad men who have been ; the private car hue hearings e ommer'-o commission in ho , ale conferred excitedly when i of mcchord's departure and its j ce became public all agreed j i outlook tor the armour car i i not pleasant it was announced ] * bord would meet chairman j uilsnii *'. clements james s j nd perhaps baltbasar h meyer j mbcrs of the commission in ton y edni.id w hines who went j ington with mcchord said the j in part would be prepared by j given to 1 i farrell solicitor commission who arrives in this ay to take charge of the case loner mcchord is expected to re cnteago with mr hines next according to the latter the will then be filed in a federal vestigation into the matter of ar lines yesterday afternoon dis ia i morris & co would be glaj of their car line service if they efficient service from the rail â€¢ be rid of service ntatives of swift a co also in ha tiiey would be glad to be hat service if they could the s showed lhat they were making fit on their investment is of the atlantic coast line j will testify today and as that i rrs ihe cars of the armour i examiner george ]'. boyle 0 obtain certain information i _ armour lines which was with the officials themselves other l messes may be called today estlons directed at the witnesses ] boyle indicate according to at for the iia.-king interests tlat rnment is conducting its investl ! ir the purpose of finding out if sible to put an end to the pri lines ami compel the carriers i the proper equipment iu re r cars and other special car 111 refrigerator cars l o.sman superintendent of the irtnieut of aiorris it co was i witness yesterday afternoon the company owned 2.in refrig ars and that all of them were erry pai-kiug house products the company owned no icing sta r ihe i ars , but depended on other companies an.l of the rail was plenty of ground for disa i between tlie private ear lines rai roads he said new anaesthetic doesn't shock heart i'iiilai.li.i'iiia inn 2j kor lb eeond time a aew anaesthetic comp.xieil erf other and oil which is less ondticlve lo nausea nnd less of a heart shock was irse.i successfully in an operation in larretson i-los.iital the patient was herhsrt hujilos who sufreretl nil i . spill palate hughes who has a weak k heart did i feel the slightest ill cf constantino wins 100,000 love suit jury rules tenor never promised to wed marcclle hontabet new yoke lan r 1 :!.â€” klorencio con stantino th spanish grand opera tenor \ has won the broach of promise action \ for j.100,00.1 damages brought against hint iby marcolie hortabet the dhninutrre i chorus girl a jury in the supreme court i decided to-day that constantino never 1 promised to oarry her miss hontabet told the jury how she j met the tenor in a boston street and j how he had promised to make her an ! artist and the wire of the great conr ; stantino sue was followed by tje de j fendaut who testified that he never meu | tioned marriage to her she accost cd me in the street one i day he explained and said she had j known me in paris and that she wauled ito go to the opera and hear me sing i igave her thk is 1 almost always give away flfty tickets to friends who want jto hear me ping he declared whatever i courting was done was on her part 1 1 ; 1 plorencw con i i * stantiixo oper j 1 atic tenor who won the j 100,000 breach of prom j i ' ise suit brought against ! : him by marcolle hon : tabet human life is held cheapest in america in no country in the world is human life so cheap as iu america j.ooo mur ders and i.fxm suicides last year is enough o appall the stoutest heart " i this was the beginning of a lelter sent out yesterday to every i'roteslant min ister in and around chicaso by w b ! millard executive secretary of the chi ! i-ago church federation council calling ! on them to prea'-h on the sac-redness of j human life on lincoln sunday febru i ary s ' _ - heir to fortune is found shot through heart man and wife arrested say vic-j tim himself fired fatal bullet into body , mystery baffles police i abraham lewis said to have j plunged down stairs when mortally wounded abraham lewis 2130 west division street owner of a northwest sii!i"d he ever had been arrested then said he once had been arrested for dil orderly conduct several policemen identified him as the man accused of the murder of a man in a aloon at washington and siorgan streets fifteen years ago he reluctantly admitted the truth of this and said he was acquit iod . knigpr's story of the dealli e ltjwi irs tolfl to lieutenant hogau is as fol low abe ami 1 hail been intimate friends j for years and he would visit my home j two lir three nights a week he called l.?sr night to get a ladle i promised to give him my wife left soon after he came in 1 went to the kitchen to get the lad if tells of shootting as 1 reached the kitchen door 1 heard a shot i looked back to the sitting room ! abo was sitting in a chair and had niy i 3s-caliber revolver in his hand he arose j from the chair dropped the revolver and started toward me " walter i'm shot go get a doctor lie said i picked up the revolver and put it ; back on the table and ran to the street | where i met policeman daniel coughlin i of the luke street station he accom ! panied me to the house we found abe lying in the hallway on the second floor he must have staggered to the stairs and i plunged down them head foremost ' lewis father is morris lewis retired commission merchant and a large holder â– it northwest side real estate the son livei iu the home of bis father swift home to rival millionaire row wai.kegan 111 jan 28 contractors bave received word hat louis k swift i the millionaire packer is planning a coun | try home which will eclipse any of the mansions on millionaire row as the j green .. bay road is sometimes called i architects have been engaged to excel ! in splendor melody farm and the mccor ! miok mansion is said to be the aim of | mr swirt president takes up 4 acute questions calls committee to discuss japan mexico canal and treaties washington jan 23 the most im portant meeting of the president with the foreign relations o.i.u.iuee ol the senate daring lie administtntfcn wiil he held on monday night al lie white liouse trhen ah the member will be present these tout acute questions will be dis iisso.l japan mexico panama canal tolls and the long overdue general atbl nation treaties senator ba.ou rhairiuan of hie com mittee had au hour's talk lhis evening with president wilson love suit against kitty soames ends barrister withdraws action nam ing sir baden-powell's relative sn-i-ial cable ta the examiner london lan ss general secrecy is maintained over a breach of promise of marriage suit which was withdrawn to day by beach chester a young barrister the womrfli be was suing was named merely as miss soames the Chicago kxaminer correspondent learns the defendant was miss kitty soames a sisier-io-law of general sir robert baden-i'owell the founder of the eoy scout movement . miss soames met chester last july and fell ln love with bim wiih the result that they eloped u s seizes clark's 6,500 tablecloth new york jan 23 modeled after a pattern used by the pope a venetian lace tablecloth costing 0,300 bought by for mer united states seuator william a clark for his 3,000,000 mansion at sev enty-seventh st eet and fifth aveuue has been seized by the government for unpaid duties united stales assistant district attor ney addison 11 pratt to-day instituted suit in the federal court to confiscate the textile although the tablecloth was seized by rhe customs officials in sena tor clark's mansion in march 19 us the fact only became public to-day the tablecloth was entered as being woith only i|.:!79,777 ava alice mu riel astor 177,750 tax on 4,851,758 william vincent astor 274,807 on 68 995.100 john jacob astor iÂ«0.2u0 on 2,917,072 bomb hurled at dowager empress special cable to the examiner i'a ili s jan 28 according to l.'in tranpigeant dowager kraprcss mario of russia hns written to her sister dowager queen alexandra of hnghsnrl telling of lier escape from death on v recent rip from denmark to st petersburg when a liomb was expfbtfed tea yards fro.n the trail in which she was riding the dowager empress had received _\ nihilist death threat steel trust to run co-operative farm on^k.at'iurr .... jan 2 the i 'â– â– k steel corporation according to lis of fb-lals shortly will have in operation 'â– :â€¢â€¢ first co.oiierath e farm n this rouutry for supplying foodsteffs lo its employe the project was made ptil.lb todav the land adjoin * l.e 8,000-nrre farm of the steel corporation easl of this ctly first list filed for city-wide subways petition of 1,000 names asking for vote on the comprehensive system is recorded in elec tion commissioners office | alderman healy the republican leader assails dinky tube ad vocates declares issue has been befuddled explains plan a first installment of 1.000 names to the petition for placing the plan tor a com i prehensive subway on the little bal ' lot at the april election was filed in ! the office of the election conimis i sioners yesterday afternoon the petition was placed on record iby james ' russell who made affi | davit that the signatures had been | secured under his supervision and â– that the signers to the best of his ' knowledge and his belief are all ! duly registered and qualified voters i it was received and filed by william h stuart clerk of the election board day by day the petition will be in creased with the addition of other thousands of signatures for it is certain now that the expression of ; public sentiment that this petition j represents will bring in vastly more jthan the terrific total of 115,000 sig i natures lhat are needed in order i that the people may be given a chance to say whether they favor a comprehensive or a dinky subway system healy joins revolt mayor harrison is absolutely cor rect when he says that the subway has beÂ«n befuddled if the subway problem was fairly and squarely pre sented to the people of Chicago they not only would vote overwhelmingly for the comprehensive rapid-transit plan but would quickly find a way lo get what they want the above statement was made by j alderman william 1 healy one of ! the republican leaders in the city council although alderman healy has al i ways been allied with tho branch of ! the republican organization that has * been dominated by former governor | charles s dencen he has not hesita ted to join the revolt in the deneeu j camp against the ex-governor's at ! tempt to pledge the official support of the party to the bion j arnold dinky subway for whose success in the referendum election next april i the traction companies and their al lied interests are working real issue obscured ! alderman healy believes tl,e befud i dliug of subway mallets - has obscured i the real issue which the people should j be asked to decide by popular vote # this issue the alderman stated as fol ! lows what the voters should be asked to de i : cide is whether it woul.l or would not be t ! better for the public to get a rapid tran ! ! sit comprehensive subway with the aid i ot franchise-extending legislation should ' such legislation be necessary or to accept the so-called dinky subway from the traction companies and trust to luck or . he necessities of the situation to force i the companies to develop the dinky sub 1 way into a comprehensive subway alderman healy continued because of the befuddling and befog i giug of the real issues involved the fact ! thai there is no reason of public poliey requiring that the twenty year franchise ; pc.vvl be adhered to in subway matters lip completely lost sight of i talk out of place all talk of definite franchise grains is â€¢ oui of place under the moderu progress ive ii ii rl enlightened methods or dealing villi targe public utilities v bet her sub : w.-.ys or traction lines the amortization plan by which a utility pays for itself aim becomes a municipally owned enterprise tvttb'u ri definite period cf y.-nrs when the public heart uudr rut nude | thai amortization w simply u substitute for n franchise i will n.,i be poesime i lie'nilde the subway question Â„;â– â€ž,,,â€¢ i paid 25,000 to escape says jack johnson in paris 1 : pugilist names federal officials as men who profited by his getaway from Chicago in view of the charges of mrs sol a lewinsohn that jack johnson paid 25,000 to her husband in order to purchase immunity from federal officials so that he might get out of the country and that sol lewinsohn lost this money in the bucket shops and that in order to recover the sum required he raided his bank and paid the money back to johnson who later disbursed it to effect his escape the examiner sent the follow ing cablegram to its correspondent in paris Chicago jan 21 c f bertelli paris interview jack johnson v/hom and how much he paid to arrange his getaway from Chicago very important to get quickly signed Chicago examiner it was the examiner's desire to obtain a spontaneous state ment from johnson therefore no hint was given in the cable gram to its correspondent of mrs lewinsohn's charges or of the nature of publications that had been made regarding the deal ing's of federal officials with lewinsohn here is the answer to the above cablegram signed by c f bertelli the examiner's paris correspondent : paris jan -'.*. Chicago examiner i found johnson to-night at the boxing hu.ll watch ing the sport alter his return from hamburg ap parently he was not worrying over his wrestling de feat 1 asked him about his getaway from Chicago ami lohnson said : i am delighted that some people in Chicago are beginning to awake to the fact that i have been shamefully treated and am the victim of blackmailing officials in that city just before i got away from Chicago i handed 20,000 to roy jones who said he was sent to me by a man named de woody who rep resented harry parkin assistant district attor ney de woody and parkin used to frequent my saloon during the early part of my trouble in Chicago they were accommodated in a private room back of my saloon in various sums i paid out in this way a total of 25,000 i am going back to see the thing through when the v time is ripe and i think that will be soon and prove the case was a put-up job against me lohnson was jubilant because the people ul c hi eago arc awakening to the injustice done him lie left the hall immediatelv to tell the news to his wife signed bertelli the examiner last night submitted the above cablegram to all the parties in interest and offered to publish anything they desired to say in answer to jack johnson roy jones was found at his home 3901 grand boulevard johnson is wrong in saying that i got any money tor him to lake to ue woody or parkin or any one else said he one reason is that de woody would not take a chance by letting me get anything on him de woody has always heen unfriendly to me because i refused io stand for his browbeating on two or three occasions johnson's rea son for trying to drag me into this is evidently due io ill-feeling that arose when i was forced to testify against him in the belle schreiber case that johnson got a dirty deal somewhere 1 am convinced when the reporter called to interview assistant district attorney harry parkin about the johnson statement he was told that mr parkin had retired and could noi be disturbed mr de woody refused to discuss the case at all he was in con sultation with francis w walker the eminent criminal lawyer mr walker called up the examiner office on the telephone and said that while there was nothing to be announced publicly ce woody would talk the matter over in private with the newspaper editors johnson's dinner to u s officials ex posed by inq uiry grand jury interested in r of indicted pugilist and his white friends s â€” ix is seldom thai 0 graud jury is interested in the purely social ac tivities or ibe subjects or its in vestigations contrary to precedent hie grand jury which is inquiring into the scandal built about the tinnin lai affairs of l:r u johnson sol lewinsohn the fugitive banker n:nl a coterie of rederal officials is ex pected t tind a deep significance ln the evening pastimes r the netrro pugilist and his wire friends thai the ri"?ro should entertain the federal otirioia ai dinner or hint the repasi stjoata be n chicken ln ner would wit inferem the grand jury bad the party nut orctrrred jusi afier jotmsmi's federal friends had caused his bale num on _ charge of i smuggling a charge that was later compromised incidentally the jurors ejtpecl to hnd that the banquet was staged during the time the federal officials were , leaking the tm*estigat*ou on which as based tbo vhite blare indict ment ngninst johnson and that the investigators attended the dinner ; aulo trip after killing the jury would not be surprised to , lenni that charles f oewoody whei ehief investigator for the i'epiirfment | nf justice in Chicago and hii wife had been the guest of sol lewinsohn and h's nir on an automobile trip to ven york it is expected thai thn jury till be 'â– , *- _ ._ . federal battles to block inquiry city's vice bureau and names of major funkhouser and judge lanrjis are misused in effort to stop more exposures commissioner foote demands that district attorney wilker son put case in the hands of special prosecutor at once cms lewinsohn investigation never will get anywhere if those under suspicion ars placed in charge of the grand jury work if mr wilkerson really is in earnest he will withdraw from the investigation and ask that a special district attorney be ap pointed to relieve him in that particular work if he does not then we can expect nothing but a whitewash it always has been the policy of public prosecutors whose depart ments are under suspicion to step asidi in favor of a special attor ney and i do not understand why such is not the procedure in mr wilkersou's ofiice â€” statement by united states commissioner mark a foote whi llr a grand jury in the federal building was mak ing an investigation of tha scandal of the relations between federal officials criminal defendants bondsmen and attorneys amazing revelations were made of the ef forts of federal officials to bottle the scandal one of the powers that the fed eral crowd sought to use to bottle up further revelations was the city ol chicago's vice bureau of which major af l c funkhouser as second deputy superintendent of police is the chief another name that was used iu an effort to intimidate a man who haa information involving the federal crowd was that or no less t person tlian judge kenesaw m landls threats for lewinsohn the name of judge landis wa used without his knowledge tho effort to use the Chicago anti-vice department was made without the knowledge of major funkhouser threats cf prison for sol lewin sohn if he returns to testify against federal officials were telephoned yes terday to his brother davrd lewin sohn owner of the congress cafe in an effort to keep the missing bondsman-banker out of reach of the government acting as he claimed on instruc tions from united states district at torney wilkerson morals inspector dannenberg \ isited lewinsohn at his saloon later and tried to use his in fuence with him keep sol out ol the country said the person wbo called lewinsohn on the telephone bd refused to identify 1.1.u ----'â– !;-. the kxniiiiuer is going to iuggest !â€¢> stale's attorney mac uy hoyne lhat be give immunity i the state otteuses to lewinsohn *it turfed '-Â„'._ last night his conversation was beard by an kvniu'aer reporter wbo was present 11 had previously telephoned : a lew irisolii t ii t district a i tome ivskeison â– a i bin il s a il n ..,-;. - 0 i :: dree :